In the year 2049, humanity stood at the edge of a new era.
Eidolon, the world’s first fully immersive VRMMORPG, promised freedom, power, and limitless adventure through AI-generated quests and synchronized progression.
But no one expected what came next.
One month after the game launched, the Synchronization Event began—players’ in-game stats, skills, and classes started merging with their real-world bodies.
And one year later, reality shattered.
Massive Gates opened across the planet, unleashing monsters, dungeons, and chaos into the world. Governments collapsed. Cities fell. And those who had once played for fun… were now fighting for survival.
Kael Arin was a nobody in that first life.
Just a broke freelancer.
A bottom-rank swordsman.
Betrayed and forgotten long before he had a chance to rise.
Until he woke up twelve hours before Eidolon was even announced, with every memory of the future intact… and a strange black key pulsing in his hand.